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Léopold Sedar Senghor
16 quotes
“No, you didn’t die for free. You are witnesses of the immortal Africa, you are witnesses of the new world that will be tomorrow.”
Léopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one has the right to erase my culture, because a community without culture is a people without human beings.”
Léopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To think and act by ourselves and for ourselves, as Negroes, to access modernity without trampling on our authenticity.”
Léopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Racists are people with the wrong anger.”
Léopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You have only to listen to God’s trombones, to your heart, beating to the rhythm of blood, your blood.”
Léopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We do not inherit the land from our parents, we borrow it from our children.”
Léopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I say there is no armed peace, no peace under oppression. No brotherhood without equality. I wanted all men to be brothers.”
Léopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who can sing to you but your brother in arms, your brother in blood. You Senegalese Tirailleurs, my black brothers with warm hands, lying under ice and death?”
Léopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Deep in the well of my memory, I touch your face where I draw the water that refreshes my long regret.”
Léopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I sing of your passing beauty, a form I fix in the Eternal, before jealous fate reduces you to ashes to nourish the roots of life.”
Léopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To dance is to discover and recreate, especially when the dance is a dance of love. It is, in any case, the best mode of knowledge.”
Léopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The poem is only complete if it becomes song, word and music at the same time.”
Léopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I dreamed of a world of sunshine in the brotherhood of all others.”
Léopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every clump of grass hides an enemy.”
Léopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I will tear the Banania smile off every wall in France.”
Léopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unlike the classical European, the Negro-African does not distinguish himself from the object, he does not hold it at a distance, he does not look at it, he does not analyse it. He touches it, he feels it, he smells it.”
Léopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source